For Sale Items and School Land Lease Notice
For sale items include sewing machine at 3 dollars bed spring and mattress 3 dollars range 10 dollars kitchen safe 2 dollars washing machine 1.50 dollars and a double work harness set with extra collars. V F Kucera. School land lease sale notice for section 16 15 50 advertised to be sold May 25 1923 by F Francis A Chapman Receiver First National Bank of Sidney Nebraska detailing a 6 room house barn granary machine shed well windmill and 40 acres under cultivation fenced.
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V. F. Kucera
F Francis A. Chapman
First National Bank of
Sidney
Nebraska
Salt Farm of the Salton Basin Explored
A journalist describes California's Salton basin salt farms. Huge conical salt heaps form after ridging and drying, with about a thousand acres covered in salt. Over 2,000 tons are harvested annually as Indian workers endure June heat reaching 150 degrees to operate the salt production process.
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California
Salton
Sleepers in Railroad Bed Genealogy of a Word
The article traces the term sleepers from a Norwegian word greip meaning timber or stone laid to form a surface. Railways popularized it in construction but navy workers altered it to refer to ships. The related term slab shares the same origin.
Animal Hair Whorls as Pedometers on Horses
Describes hair whorls and crests on horses and other animals as natural indicators of movement. Notes the domestic horse shows most numerous and prominent examples such as flank feathering and crests on the chest and body parts.
Where the Advantage is. Mrs Portly-Riche and the Bronsons
A London Mail style dialogue notes Mrs Portly-Riche remarks on charity and wealth, implying the Bronsons are hard up and the speaker defends their own generosity while the Bronsons deny giving. The exchange highlights social pretensions and class tension.
Wool Market Trek to Tibet High Valleys
Tibetan sheep owners barter fleece for Indian tea rice and cotton goods. Traders bring pack ponies mutes and donkeys to the 18 000 feet high valley in mid July where wool is sheared and rolled into compact ropes bound to pack animals for transport.
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Patseo
Tibet
Trout Stream Rerun Reveals Long Winding Path
A fragment describes a run on Trout Stream that would have stretched about three miles straight yet twisted across ten or twelve miles with many turns, suggesting a complex, serpentine course and the narrator’s effort to follow it.
Out of Harmony Out of Luck in a Sea Son’s Toll
A Grit columnist quotes Uncle Ben remarking that people fall out of harmony with themselves and nature, leading to bad luck as more individuals drift from balance in life and the environment. The piece frames harmony as essential to fortune, noting the sea's toll on unsettled souls.
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Uncle Ben
Ingratitude and Bedding Plants for Decoration Day
Some ingratitude is noted as the seller speaks of kindness and a U S A ad. A shipment of bedding plants arrives May 28 including geraniums snapdragons ferns asters margarites and carnations for Decoration Day. Located at 702 West and Street with phone 251. Crowd offers to teach music for free at Larsen's Music Store, boy and saxophone.
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Second Street
Curtailed Bird Names Warned by Survey on Insect Raiders
The Curtaed Stater biological survey cautions against misnaming birds while noting its members raid insects like other birds. The report emphasizes the birds, though labeled with errors, play a key role in pest control alongside jays, crows, and blackbirds.
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Apyrrow
S'7
School District 147 Pie Supper and Program May 23
Pupils of School District 147 will host a program followed by a Pie Supper on Wednesday evening May 23. Esther Hammarstrom is the teacher. Co G Conn band instruments are advertised by Larson's Music Store with a lesson offer. Send it to the laundry.
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Esther Hammarstrom
Co. G. Conn
Larson
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